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Australia to Fine Tech Companies That Platform 'Disinformation'

Australia Proposes Banning Children From Accessing Social Media

Employees at Meta, OpenAI, Google Sign Letter in Support of California AI Bill

Meta Oversight Board: 'From the River to the Sea' Not Hate Speech

EU warns X over illegal content risks. Musk replies with Tropic Thunder insult meme

TechCrunchAug 29

X Sues To Block California Law Targeting Election-Related Deepfakes On Social Media

Right-Wing Activists Pushed False Claims About Election Fraud. Now They’re Recruiting Poll Workers in Swing States.

ProPublica14 hrs

Welcome to the Pride Parade

Korea HeraldSep 28

Australia: Indigenous Senator Censured Over Royal Protest

Australia: Judge Rules Senator Violated Racial Discrimination Law

Brazil Lifts Ban on X

SCOTUS Rejects X's Appeal in Trump Data Case

Texas AG opens investigation into advertising group that Elon Musk sued for ‘boycotting’ X

TechCrunch5 days

Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media

New Scientist7 days

[Peter Singer] A lesson from Trump’s campaign

Korea HeraldNov 19

How the Trump administration and congressional Republicans may crack down on pro-Palestinian protesters

Why changes to the block on Elon Musk’s X are driving users away

TechCrunchNov 06

Independent US Govt. Panel Calls for Secret Service Overhaul

California Passes AI Regulation Bill

OpenAI Whistleblowers Allege NDAs Prevent Airing of Safety Concerns

Boeing Whistleblower Claims His Firing Was Related to Safety Complaints

Kash Patel Could Reportedly Get Key Trump FBI Or DOJ Role—Here’s Why Critics Are Worried

US lawmakers urge Biden to pardon Assange to send ‘clear message’ on media freedom

Trial of ex-FBI informant indicted for lying about Bidens delayed amid new tax evasion charges

Trump's Director of National Intelligence Appointee Tulsi Gabbard Is on Terror Watchlist?

FEMA Director Denies, Denies, Denies

Sutherland Springs Shooting Victims, DOJ Reach $144M Settlement

North Carolina Democrat Flips Parties, Gives Republicans Supermajority in State House

Spain Approves Teen Abortion, Menstrual Leave, and Trans Laws

‘We’d rather perish’: protests roil South Korean women’s university over plan to admit male students

We can't share Thanksgiving. You voted to deport people who look like me. | Opinion

USA Today17 hrs

No topic or opinion off limits at new Texas college – a place where students, professors won't get "canceled"

The Surgeon General Issues a Parenting Advisory

Psychology Today18 hrs

University of Maryland offers 'fat studies' course on how 'fatness' and 'Blackness' intersect

A year of escalating conflict in the Middle East has ushered in a new era of regional displacement

The ConversationOct 23

Navalny's Widow to Run for President in Post-Putin Russia

Jailed Cuban Dissident Leader Wins Annual Human Rights Award

Russian Warships to Arrive in Cuba Next Week

China: Imprisoned Citizen Journalist's Sentence Concludes

11_Imprisoned Belarus activist resurfaces after 20 months

Korea HeraldNov 13

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, in prison for speaking up against human rights violations, has been a voice for women for almost two decades

The Conversation21 hrs

‘Always on and watching’: A former Xinjiang prisoner describes life inside China’s detention camps – TechCrunch

TechCrunchNov 28, 2022

Britain Must Call for Release of British-Egyptian Activist and Coder Alaa Abd El Fattah

Electronic Frontier Foundation12 hrs

Nobel Peace Prize to Activists from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine